Verbo mudo — Maria Velho da Costa e a imagem da casa do meio

Abstract

Literature, in its multiple developments, can be a basis for thinking, and even questioning, the role of the humanities today, through the prism of memory and the decolonization of language, aspects that guide the present proposal. In the domain of literature, the image of the house is a dynamic that evokes and dialectizes affective figures, suggesting certain emotional effects in the production of a complex structure that modifies the values ​​of reality and questions the limits of memory in recreating and transmitting the facts of the past. This body-to-be is O livro do meio by Maria Velho da Costa (and its correspondent Armando Carvalho), specifically the fragments in which the author-narrator shrinks until she enters the writing that supports her “House of Screams”.